He went to meet someone at the downtown library earlier in the day. That evening, he went to visit friends. He never came home.

His brother said police told them he needed to be missing 72 hours before they could report him missing. His brothers knocked on doors in the meantime. His brother said the family filed on Jan. 7.

On Jan. 11, police issued a news release seeking the public's help in locating him.

"There's a lot of questions we have surrounding his death and we're just trying to obtain as much information as we can," said Lt. Julie Johnson, who runs the detective division.

Detectives, she said, have been investigating the case since he was reported missing. She asked anyone with information to contact detectives.

On Feb. 11, Young's body was found in the Mill River near Orange Street.

The autopsy revealed no overt trauma, like a stab wound or gunshot wound. But it failed to determine the cause.

"The only thing I want to know is what really happened to my child," said mother Charlestine Young. "It's a mystery."

Young suffered from mental illness and left his medicine at home.

What haunts his brother Shijuan Young, who had to identify his brother from pictures of tattoos on the arms on the recovered body, is not knowing for how long he was dead. Based on the condition of the body, he said he doesn't believe his brother was in the water the entire time. When they brought the body to the funeral home, the director agreed with their suspicions, he said.

"In my heart, I believe he was brought to that water by someone" and dumped there, Shijuan Young said. He said detectives told the family that they already had searched the area of the river and found nothing.

"We need to know what happened to my brother, how long he's been gone, find out of somebody's behind this. Or people," he said.

Detectives ask that anyone with information contact police at 203-946-6304 or at 203-589-6003.